Hello Forum Member,

Please excuse the lateness of this resonse - I'm just geting through my backlog...

Look into possiblly activating / deactivating the service broker queue:

ALTER QUEUE [ExternalMailQueue] WITH ACTIVATION (

STATUS = ON,

PROCEDURE_NAME = [dbo].[sp_sysmail_activate],

MAX_QUEUE_READERS = 1,

EXECUTE AS OWNER)

And reference (the following is not documented in my BOL, but the SP is there):

EXEC msdb.[dbo].[sp_sysmail_activate]

You could, perhaps run a daily job to activate the broker, then deactivate it a few minutes later?

Hope you find a way to accomplish your goals,